in the one step forward, two steps back habit of basketball in Canada, the first men’s national team to make it to the world championships in eight years is very likely to return home without a win.
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Leo Rautins Head Coach of Canada's National team decided to send home point guard Tyler Kepkay and forward Kyle Landry. Rautins had tough decisions to make due to various injuries to key players. The ...
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Coach Leo Rautins just wants his Canadian men’s national basketball team to be in good health when they reach the world championship in Turkey at the end of the month.
Topping the list of concerns ...
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Canada’s preparations for the FIBA world basketball championship took a big hit Tuesday after the men’s team lost 123-49 in an exhibition game against Greece.
“It was a tough game against a very st...
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rior to Tuesday night’s exhibition game against China at Rogers Arena, Canada’s national basketball team had only been playing together for a grand total of six days. But right from the opening tip-of...
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Canada will return to a FIBA World Championship for the first time in eight years at the end of the month and the players cannot wait to get going.
Canada failed to qualify for both the 2004 Olympi...
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There was a time when Andy Rautins was accused of getting many things from his father. His fashion sense was not one of them.
But as Rautins, the point guard for Canada's national basketball team p...
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There will be few who think Canada will make much noise at the world basketball champions later this month.
But it hasn’t stopped the confidence from building within the group that begins its final...
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Two years ago, when the Canadian men's basketball team gathered at the Air Canada Centre to prepare for the Olympic qualifying tournament, Denham Brown was a no-show.
Last week, at the senior men's...
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Canada Basketball officially unveiled on Friday the final roster for the Development Men’s National Team (DMNT) that will be competing in several exhibition games in Europe this summer. From July 17–A...
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Tyler Kepkay was 15 and a multi-sport athlete when he saw Canada play China in a men's basketball international at GM Place in 2002 and decided that maybe hoops should be his career path.
"That was...
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Canada has produced exactly one stand-out NBA point guard in decades.
But national men’s team head coach Leo Rautins believes that drought will soon come to a spectacular end.
Seemingly out of n...
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If the NBA was mainly a shooters league then Andy Rautins would be a guaranteed Lottery pick. Top 5 even...Unfortunately athleticism and scoring ability is just as valuable in the world's greatest bas...
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Canada’s return to international basketball prominence will not be a quick and easy journey: there are foundations to build, programs to enhance and a group of promising teenagers of both genders to n...
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